Archive for August, 2010
The Comparative Costs Of Extending The Bush Tax Cuts
Most of the stories I have seen on the subject focus on the cost of extending the tax cuts for only the wealthiest Americans. I really cannot recall reading anywhere in the mainstream media or on a liberal blog what the cost would be for the Democrats’ proposal of extending the tax cuts only for [...]
The Height Of Political Assholery
Did you know that some of the central tenets of Islam are economic beliefs? For example, Muslims believe that the government can generate jobs. (Whereas the asshole contingent of the Republican Party, the largest contingent by far these days, believes that the government has never created one single job. Yes, whether you realized it or [...]
A Pathetic Little Bigot From Brooklyn
Over the weekend, the Associated Press produced a fair-and-balanced report about the controversial Cordoba House community center in Manhattan, the one that’s slated to be built on the hallowed ground that was most recently consecrated as a Burlington Coat Factory store. AP‘s headline for the story is “Rallies over mosque near ground zero get heated“, [...]
Fast And Loose Times At ThinkProgress
Suppose you read a post titled “Dick Armey Lays Out Proposal To End Social Security And Medicare ‘As You Know It’”. And let’s suppose — purely for the sake of argument — that you read it in a blog you know and trust. For example, it might be a blog whose name consists entirely of [...]
Reading Comprehension Trips Up Pulitzer-Prize-Winning Journalist
Shouldn’t reading comprehension be a basic requirement for being a print journalist or an editor? The Washington Post doesn’t seem to think so: “This treaty is a masterstroke. . . . It is shorn of the tortured bench marks, sub-limits, arcane definitions and monitoring provisions that weighed down past arms control treaties,” said Sen. Jon [...]
The Continuing Saga Of The NOAA’s Clumsy Spin
On August 4, the NOAA — which has not exactly covered itself in glory as the Deepwater Horizon oil spill debacle has unfolded — put out an unexpectedly upbeat report that was widely interpreted as celebrating the end of the clean-up phase of the oil spill. According to the report: …almost three-fourths of the crude [...]
Our Collective Shame
Time poll: 15. Do you think that a Muslim should be allowed to … Run for President of the United States? Yes: 61% No: 32% No answer/Don’t know: 7% Serve on the U.S. Supreme Court? Yes: 65% No: 28% No answer/Don’t know: 7% Almost one-third of the country would bar Muslims from running for President? [...]
Harry Reid and Howard Dean
Reid and Howard Dean sitting in a tree, S-M-O-K-I-N-G? Bookmark on DeliciousDigg this postShare on Facebookshare via RedditShare with StumblersTweet about itBookmark in BrowserTell a friend
Go Figure!
When you see the headline “New York’s Little Pakistan Responds To Floods“, you hardly expect the very first sentence of the story to be: In the U.S., raising money for relief efforts following Pakistan’s devastating floods has been slow. (Today’s episode of Cognitive Dissonance in the Media was brought to you by NPR.) Bookmark on [...]
Videotape And Lies (No Sex)
Well, well, well, well, well! The CIA has videotapes, after all, of interrogations in a secret overseas prison of admitted 9/11 plotter Ramzi Binalshibh. Discovered in a box under a desk at the CIA, the tapes could reveal how foreign governments aided the United States in holding and interrogating suspects. And they could complicate U.S. [...]